What is proper Nourishment for the Mind? – I am just searching for the mind!
There are five different kinds of proper nourishment for the mind:
- The first, the enthusiastic one; Follow the right path, enjoy it and take care of it.
- The second, the meditative, joyful one; inside and outside are tranquil and bright; mind and body are joyful.
- The third, the mindful one; always thinking of the Good mindfully, mind and mouth are in accord with each other.
- The fourth, the vowing one; either coming or going, staying, sitting, or lying down, always determined with good vows.
- The fifth, the great liberation one; mind is always immaculate and should not be tainted by worldly dust. The mind should always be flawless.
The Mind - Proper Nourishment
Seeing, hearing, feeling, and knowing, themselves are completely serene; how possibly can anger, pleasure, itching and suffering be different from the original self?
No matter how hard you look at them, you can find them nowhere. Therefore it is said, "bad karmic elements will result in suffering, and good karmic elements will result in happiness."
Anger results in falling into hell, happiness results in being born in heaven; however, if one sees the empty nature of anger and happiness without having attachment, then, he will immediately be free from karmic power.
So once more, if one has not seen the self-nature, no matter how well one teaches and speaks of the holy scriptures, it would not be of any help.
Although it requires endless discussion to explain all the necessities, nevertheless, I have here simply represented what is wrong and right, although details are still not adequate.
The Mind, which call the mind, 'mind'
Has, no way to be seen;
When expanded, it permits not even the tip of a needle.
I am just searching for the mind;
Never looked for God
Everything in the three different Cosmos is void;
I now truly understand nothing exists.
Bodhidharma